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Okay, here's the situation: My parents went away on a weeks vacation...

AND

I had to bottle half on my 10 gallons of Hef due to only having 1 available keg. The 5 gallons I kegged turned out great, but the 5 gallons I bottled came out way less carbonated. I have been adding some of the flatter stuff into half a glass on the good stuff to make a decent pint, but was wondering if I could just pour the 2-3 gallons I have left into a keg and try to force 're-carbonate' it?

Thanks in advance

I'm not sure what your parents being out of town has to do with anything, but anyway...

don't pour them back into a keg, siphon them. If you have a counterpressure bottle filler that will work great, if not, put some tubing in a picnic faucet. Experiment a little and you'll be amazed how well it works. Oh, purge that keg with CO2 first, too.

How the hell would you push beer out of a bottle with a beer gun?

Tarp Town wrote:How the hell would you push beer out of a bottle with a beer gun?

Suck it (instead of push it)

Tarp Town wrote:How the hell would you push beer out of a bottle with a beer gun?

This assumes you have a partially filled keg with the same type of beer that is in the bottles and you want to put the beer in the bottles back into that keg.

Put keg on floor, full bottles on table.
Attach beer gun to keg, fill Beer Gun line with beer
Disconnect CO2, open pressure relief on keg.
repeat:
Open bottle, put beer gun nozzle in bottle.
Pull the trigger. Watch beer magically flow into keg.
Release trigger before tube is empty.
discard/recycle empty bottle
/repeat

You'll be done in no time.

DannyW wrote:I'm not sure what your parents being out of town has to do with anything

Sounds like they took the other empty kegs with them?

You could also do it with pressure, if you didn't want to rely on gravity.

- Purge and pressurize the ket to 10PSI
- Hooked up the CPF as usual with two exceptions: 1) reverse the flow of CO2 by moving the CO2 line from the normal input down to the to the pressure relief valve on the CPF, and 2) leave the QD off of the keg. Then the procedure for each bottle is:

1) put the CPF back into the bottle
2) open the PRV to pressurize the bottle
3) open the beer valve
4) slowly throttle the PRV on the keg to drop the pressure in the keg - beer starts flowing out of bottle
5) Stop the flow with the beer valve before the bottle is completely empty to prevent any air from the headspace bubbling through the beer
6) close the PRV valve on the CPF and remove from bottle

I like you gravity setup better, Danny - much more simple. The key, I suppose, is to not try to get every last drop out of the bottle and break your siphon.


Mylo

Thanks. I'm going to get an exact count of how many bottles I have before deciding. I may try adding some more corn sugar to a few to see if that helps any.

Definitely interesting.